What I was trying to say is Moore presents a falsified picture to the viewing audience, who in turn take it as the straight truth (not knowing any better) and believe that Moore's points are backed up exactly as they witness them. Here are some skewed parts of his movie Bowling for Coloumbine. First of all Moore tricked Heston into an interview where he bombarded him with unanswerable questions. After the footage of the columbine shootings, Moore says, 'Just 10 days after the Columbine killings—despite the pleas of a community in mourning—Charlton Heston came to Denver and held a large pro-gun rally for the National Rifle Association.” Exceot the excerpt of Heston is from an entirely different appeareance, and there was no rally in denver. There was no rally at all after columbine. And there was no rally in Flint, Michigan after that tragedy. There was a political rally 8 months later in Flint, but there was no NRA rally the day after the shooting like Moore leads the audience to believe. In reference to Columbine, Moore also says that, 'It is believed that all of the guns that they used were all legally purchased at gun stores and gun shows …” when in fact Harris and Kleabold wiolated 20 state and federal laws in aqcuiring those weapons. Moore does not mention that the two killers had threatened other kids, or that they made a film about gunning down classmates. But he does place American culture and American values solely to blame for the acts of these two criminals.
And as yeti mentioned, the supposedly, 'missles of mass destruction' were simply rocket boosters used to send t.v. satelites into orbit. And then with the headlines, the final one saying, Sept. 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden used expert cia training to murder 3,000 people. So what is Moore saying, that it is all our fault as American's. That we are all to blame for the tragedy that is September 11. Later in the film, Moore shows 'footage' of a hunter and his beagle with a gun strapped to its back, but it was discoverd that the footage was faked. But Moore did persuade hsi viewers to believe that hunters are morons. Back to the flint case, Moore does not share that the young boy lived in a home amid trash, drugs, abusive parents, and stolen guns, of course that had nothing to do with why he brought a gun to school. Anyway thats what im trying to say, its not a documentary when you dont show what is actually going on, but actually portray ones view with deception.
